The Westminster Group Foundation have recently supported Oxford United in their donation of football shirts to Sierra Leone.

Oxford United football shirts have been donated to communities in Sierra Leone both by Oxford United themselves, and by global children’s charity, Enable the Children.

The Westminster Foundation aided the cause by shipping the football shirts to communities in Lungi, Sierra Leone, where Westminster have been present through our management of the security systems at Freetown International Airport since 2012. We will continue to provide support to the area in whatever ways we can during this pandemic, and beyond.

The Westminster Group Foundation are proud to support the Roll Out the Barrel Trust with their donation of 1,000 safety face visors to Sierra Leone.

The Roll Out the Barrel Trust are a British charity who aim to prevent women, children and elderly people across the world having to carry water by hand, on their backs or on their heads, by providing them with Rotary Water Barrels. Since the COVID-19 crisis, the charity have diversified and have been supplying first world countries with PPE.

The Westminster Group Foundation have supported the ROTB Trust with their donation of 1,000 safety visors to Sierra Leone. The Westminster Group PLC are aiding the trust with air freighting the visors to Freetown International Airport, where they will be distributed to organisations and communities in Lungi and the surrounding area.

Westminster have had a presence in Lungi since 2012, through our management of the security systems at Freetown International Airport and we will be continuing to support the area in whatever ways we can during this pandemic.

The Westminster Group Foundation are proud to be in partnership with AlansAfrica to support Sierra Leone’s Calvary Primary School.

Due to the Coronavirus pandemic, many parents have been unable to pay their children’s fees. Because of this, staff and teachers at the school have not been able to receive a salary for the past three months.

The staff at the Calvary School sent an email to Alan’s Africa thanking them and their donor partners for their ‘timely intervention’.

As well as this, in partnership with AlansAfrica, we have upgraded the submersible pump in the well at the School and Church community to provide a more efficient water system. This will make a remarkable difference to the community, especially to the school children.

Westminster will continue to provide support to Lungi and the surrounding area, as we have done for the last 8 years.

The Westminster Group Foundation has recently provided a large quantity of stable commodities such as rice, sugar and water to the poor and disabled community in the Lungi area of Sierra Leone. The advent of the Coronavirus pandemic has resulted in the temporary lock-down of Freetown International Airport and local businesses which has subsequently caused the community to be suffering financially.

The Westminster Group CEO Peter Fowler commented “that the Westminster Group wished to extend their sincere thoughts and prayers to the people and government of Sierra Leone as they work together to overcome the effects of the Coronavirus pandemic. Westminster has been operating in Sierra Leone for over eight years providing security at Freetown International Airport and local employment, it is fully committed to the country and its people and will continue to support the government its employees and local communities as we did during the Ebola crisis”.

The local community elders thanked Westminster for the food and continued support that they are providing.

On receiving 15 football tops generously provided from Oxford United Football Club to distribute to the local community in Lungi from Alan Wolstencroft. Neil Fowler decided that he wanted to do something different rather than just hand out the tops. He came up with the idea of creating a quiz paper for local schools to compete for the tops.

He set questions whereby the pupils would have to find out information on the different organisations that were involved in setting the quiz up, from Oxford United Football Club, Westminster Aviation Security Services Ltd (WASS) and The Standard Team, a Lungi based charitable organisation. Eleanor Samba a local WASS employee assisted in setting the Sierra Leone based questions. Neil also wanted to know more about Lungi so set the question “Name three places a visitor should see when in Lungi” there were no right or wrong answers to this particular question, but it was interesting to know what the pupils recommended seeing.

17 entries were received from 4 different schools. The winning entry came from Bullom Ahmadiyya, Muslim Junior secondary school from the Masoila area in Lungi.

During the prize giving the pupils informed Neil that they very much enjoyed completing the quiz and were delighted to have won the football Jerseys. The Teacher who facilitated the quiz for the school said that the jerseys would be worn by the pupils when competing in inter school sports events.

Neil Fowler is an WASS Aviation Security Manager at Lungi International Airport.